Installation of two video channels, TV-monitors are placed next to each other. Both monitors show a black and white video image of a glassful of water. A spoon stirs the water in the right image, creating a small whirlpool. The camera rotates quickly around the glass in the left image.

Marko Vuokola (b. 1967) has worked with many media, ranging from photographs to video and sculpture. His works refer to modernist painting as well as conceptualism. Marko Vuokola lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

The image in Cycle is composed of two white dots side by side on black background. The scale of both dots change simultaneusly; the other dot becomes larger and the other smaller. As the loop is repeated the two dots seem to move in a continuous elliptical circle. Three loops are played side by side in slightly different speeds resulting in a slowly varying animation with its own visual rhythm. Cycle is a digital reconstruction of an installation exhibited in Galleri Leena Kuumola in the year 2005. The first version of the work was a Flash-animated web-animation (2004).

Juha van Ingen (b. 1963) explores in his art surprising and sudden spatial- temporal processes. Van Ingen´s (Dis)Integrator (1992) is a contemporary classic of structural video art. Van Ingen lives and works in Helsinki and is a founding member of a cooperative FixC of Finnish moving image artists.

The work gives aural and visual forms to the cycles relating to being human. The pain during the menstruation (dysmenorrhea or painful periods) has it´s intimate lighting with the help of sound. The interaction between the Earth, Moon and the Sun becomes experienced by auralization of the data about their rotations and effects on gravity, part of the experience of being a habitant of the Earth.

Janne Särkelä (s. 1977) is an ambient music artist and a sound traveller of many kind of waters. He plays ambient music under the name Sarana. Sarana has been performing for 10 years in Finland and abroad in the chill-out spaces of psychedelic festivals. Särkelä has built sound installations and made sound-image transformations.

‘Noise After Babel’ is an exhibition as result of artistic-theoretical research. It examines multi-accentuality of language as the potential grounds for social engagement.

Babel, which is the fictitious state of homogenous language, is contrasted to heterogeneity of noise. In our project noise is not restricted to relate only to sound, but is a source of multilevel information. Rather than dealing with unilateral conception of language, our interest is in engaging with the kind of speech and communication that has multi-accentual form and dialogical nature. Our general metaphor for using the coupling ‘babel’ and ‘noise’ is based on conception of a perfectly working system of univocal state, which functions without coercions (babel), that after an intervention/change (‘loss of innocence’) is replaced by unwanted and unbearable situation (noise).

The exhibition is an outcome of an interdisciplinary project, which engages visual artists, theoreticians and linguists. Another outcome of the project is the book Noise After Babel – Language Unrestrained which can be viewed in the exhibition and will be published by Spector Books, Leipzig.

In the first open call we were looking for artworks in which an act of performance had been a vital part of the working process. We were looking for work that had been inspired by a performance, resulting in a new piece of art – for example, an installation, text, a drawing, a cartoon or audio work.

I begin by saying ”Open your speech box” concurrently holding my own mouth open. If you figure out that the process of opening your mouth involves opening (closing), when you say you open (close) the box and your mouth and I say: ”Correct, my speech box is open (closed) and I hold my mouth open and closed.” If you do not open (close) your mouth, I say: ”Incorrect, so the speech box is not open (closed) when I close it and keep it closed. We will repeat this until you figure out the rules of this game between the exchange of the exterior and the interior. Thus, you are utilizing form inside another form: A is (is not) A, therefore they are called the same and are obfuscated by one another in turns. All of this is very poky and doesn’t allow delineation between the distinct and the indistinct. They are momenta unaware of each other in a double duplication while maintaining corresponding involvement with and of each other. Turn by turn they keep back the action of one another through imagery and the presence of the shift change of the former (is visible in the gal-(diff-)er(ent)-ies (untied to a location as a word) pieces as differentiations of form and color). ”It would be better now if you finally got that you need to keep your mouth shut and understood that this scene is to be remained a secret that we keep to ourselves and that you have a complete comprehension of what I have voiced out.” Which is: for the duration of the flap of the wing of the flour moth the pieces are painted over with a steam parallelogram (condensation while speaking during frost and the mentioning of it without previous intention), different from the piece, different from its’ pieces, different from the differentiations of its’ pieces. This semi encasing ”Look look look! Look as it’s insinuating itself to me. LOOK, when it starts going like this” the its’ uncreated hypothesis acts as a channel for the untold and is also a well-worthy guesstimate as to what lies between.

When the Spanish colonised the territory that is now Colombia, they used horses as transportation and as a weapon.
Aborigines hadn’t seen horses ever before.
In those first encounters they saw the rider and the horse as only one creature. A sort of Centaurus.

The Colombian Fine Step horse is a breed. The Fine Step, or Paso Fino (in Spanish) is not the result of training, but of genetics and human selection.
The rhythm, the body and the temperament of these horses, is the result of a hundred-year process of transformation and realisation of aesthetic paradigms and social structures.

The Colombian landscape has changed radically in the last eighty years. The constant war, technological change, demographic explosion and the drug business (among other factors) have left the Paso Fino horses stepping on concrete tracks equipped with microphones to amplify the frantic knocking for crowds celebrating or criticising.

In “Fine Step for Muybridge” and “Concert for fine step horse and horn in four movements”, these elements come together in a sound, visual and sculptural territory.

Artists Maija Saksman and Seppo Renvall are bringing back to life the open screening club of Gallery Leena Kuumola and Helsingin Elokuvapaja.
Open screenings were organized once or twice a year for ten years until 2005. According to a spectator, there were nights that not a single bad video was shown, and the standard was set high within the crowd. The event is traditionally an open forum for video and sound art, also unfinished projects are accepted, open commentary is accepted throughout the event.
Bring a video or sound, or just come watch, request for length max 10 min, acceptable formats are DVD, VHS, USB-portal external hard drives and sticks, in case of an emergency uploadable (rather no youtube) material through the internet, we ask you to consider that the screening room is in the basement with bad internet connection.
Last call at the gallery at 21:45!
Additional info marnohanna@gmail.com

In the first open call we are looking for artworks in which an act of performance has been a vital part of the working process. We are looking for work that has been inspired by a performance, resulting in a new piece of art – for example, an installation, text, a drawing, a cartoon or audio work. The piece can also be a video documentation of a live performance, a performance executed for camera, or a photographic documentation.

The first OpenCall of Gallery Oksasenkatu 11 is a unique opportunity for bold and open-minded brainstorming. We want to encourage unusual ways of expression. The space is free of charge. The open call welcomes artists and art students in all stages of their career. The applicant can be an individual or a group. You can apply with an idea for an exhibition occupying the whole space, or with a single piece of work.

Exhibition will take place 15th -28th of February 2015. Send the application to info@oksasenkatu.fi. Application deadline is 31st December 2014.

“Thus, on the one hand, fashion signifies a union with those of the same status, the uniformity of a social circle characterized by it, and, in so doing, the closure of this group against those standing in a lower position which the higher group characterizes as not belonging to it. Just as the frame of a picture characterizes the work of art inwardly as a coherent, homogeneous, independent entity and, at the same time, outwardly severs all direct relations with the surrounding space… “
—Georg Simmel

Furthermore:

“Comfortable as a toothache.”
—Mark Twain

Addendum:

“Fashion elevates even the unimportant individual by making them the representative of a totality, the embodiment of a joint spirit.”
—Georg Simmel

Bergman & Salinas
We are an artist duo. We have lived in Toronto, New York, Detroit, London, Barcelona, Gothenburg, Oslo, Berlin and currently live in Seattle. Our work is interdisciplinary and logo-less. We like cats and the internet.

In experimental sound we won an award of distinction in digital music at the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. We have been commissioned to produce sound works by institutions such as WDR West German radio and
Swedish National Radio.

In 2011 we founded INCA, an artist-run space and artist in residency in Detroit, and in 2013 we founded INCA Seattle.

We are both currently faculty at the University of Washington, Bothell.

Näyttely on auki 5.-26.10. to-pe klo 16-19 ja la-su klo 12-18
Tervetuloa avajaisiin la 4.10. klo 17-20
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Risto Puurunen’s exhibition takes you to enchanted voyage where the world offered by computer graphics and film industry has been harnessed to analogue via the use of 3-D glasses and flashlights. The term augmented reality receives a new meaning when instead of ready-made world, the viewer’s reactions -direction of travel, attention points, rustles, and the light from flashlight- define the ascent of shadows from darkness into air.

The artist is a founding member from the band Cleaning Women and “Shadows in the Air” is his first private exhibition. His previous works in the visual arts have for example been the 3D-camera obscura built from the
used carrying cases of film reels done this spring in Mexico with Kinobox Obscura group.

The exhibition is open October 5-26,
Thu-Fri 16:00-19:00 and Sat-Sun 12:00-18:00.
Welcome to the opening on Sat October 4th 17:00-20:00.